Re: newbie splitting mail question

[Richard Riley]

Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've just got gnus configured to read my mail via IMAP. Looks good, but
> I'm having trouble figuring out the syntax for splitting mail. Nothing
> gets split now, and when I run B q on any email, the message returned
> indicates it would be refiled to mail.misc, which doesn't exist as far
> as I can tell. I've pasted all of my gnus config details below. Can
> anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>
> ;; loaded from my .emacs.d/init.el via (load "~/.emacs.d/gnus")
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
>
> (setq gnus-select-method 
>       '(nnimap "mail"
>               (nnimap-address "MY-IMAP-SERVER")
>               (nnimap-stream network)
>               (nnimap-authenticator login)
>               (nnimap-port 143)
>               (nnimap-split-methods 
>                '(("INBOX.forwarded" "^Received:.*OLD.SERVER")
>                  ("INBOX.default" "")))))
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "news.gmane.org")))
>
> (defun my-gnus-summary-hook ()
>   (local-set-key "t" 'gnus-summary-mark-as-processable))
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'my-gnus-summary-hook)
>
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>        '(("*"    ; Matches all groups of messages
>           (address "my.email.address@myschool.edu")
>           (name "My Name"))))
>
> (setq nnimap-split-inbox "INBOX")
> (setq nnimap-split-predicate "UNDELETED")
>

I would be interested in this too. My imap splitting doesnt work with
spam-split anymore. Unfortunately I haven't seen a working version
posted ;(

Did you try using, and excuse my poor elisp/gnus terminology, all
"globals" instead of passing them to gnus-select-method? The manual
isn't very clear about whats best or the differences.